Word: focused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fellow students that they would be inundated with more work than they could handle. Hansen had a higher purpose than assigning punishing amounts of work: the real goal, he explained, was to force students to learn how to separate what was important from what wasn't and then focus...
Bush's ability to focus at the right time has yielded such results as tort reform in Texas. The bill had been languishing in the legislature in 1995. When state senator David Sibley, the G.O.P. author of the legislation, went to see Bush to tell him it was dead, Bush invited him to dinner at the Governor's mansion. Until then, the Governor had kept his distance from legislative machinations. That night he weighed in. With Sibley by his side, Bush got on the phone with the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Bob Bullock, and in a matter of minutes hammered...
Where does the case go now? The lawyers and the appeals courts will have their say. But ultimately, the most important actor in this drama will be Bill Gates. The Justice Department showcased just how central he was when it made the strategic decision to focus at the trial on his actions--and to make his video deposition and e-mails the public relations centerpiece of its case. Microsoft is Gates' company, and he'll decide how it responds to this latest challenge...
...series of recurring visions since sometime around the Iowa straw poll. Men who are wearing suits and carrying loose-leaf folders put me in a plain room with a large mirror that I somehow know is one-way glass. They tell me I'm a focus group, all by myself. They assure me that I'll be paid $50 for my cooperation and be provided with a box lunch, choice of chicken-salad sandwich or smoked-turkey-and-arugula wrap. I should be aware, they say, that my lunch choice, coordinated with my party registration and weighted...
...want to be a focus group...